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敷地、建物

建物とその周囲の土地。英語では普通、複数形のpremisesを使う。

やさしい英語で： A building and the land around it, usually referred to in the plural.

• Smoking is forbidden on these premises.
• The company moved to larger premises last year.
• Please leave the premises before we close the gates.

類義語： property

よく使う表現： business premise, commercial premise, private premise

前提、仮定

説明や議論の出発点として、正しいと認める考え。

やさしい英語で： An idea you accept as true and use as the starting point for an argument or explanation.

• Your argument rests on a false premise.
• The basic premise is that people want to help.
• Do you accept the premise behind this theory?

使い方： on the premise that… (We planned the trip on the premise that everyone could swim.)

類義語： assumption, proposition

よく使う表現： basic premise, false premise, premise of something, initial premise

前提とする、仮定する

その後の考えを進めるため、出発点となる考えを示す。

やさしい英語で： To state an idea as a starting point for further reasoning.

• Let me premise one point before we begin.
• The author premises that people act from self-interest.
• She premised her argument with a statement about human nature.

使い方： premise that… (Let us premise that the figures are accurate.)

類義語： postulate, assume

よく使う表現： premise an argument, premise that something